Slacko 5.3.3 hangs on shut down (Solved)

[mikkelart]

When shutting down or rebooting slacko 5.3.3 after first boot it hangs at "Puppy Linux is shutting down..." and i have to use the powerbutton to power off.

This happens both when saving and not saving to usb, or even using a liveCD. When saving to usb the saved filesystem i ruined when trying to boot again.

I've tried both the 4g and higmem iso, but no difference.

Any ideas whats wrong?

[darkcity]

Hi mikkelart

At a guess your machine is objecting to something in the shutdown script. Have you tried any other versions of PUppy, also what is the Spec of your machine?

What happens if you Exit to Prompt and type shutdown?

[mikkelart]

Yes, I've tried 5.3.1 which shut down just fine. However my wifi did not work in that version.

I get the same result when exiting to prompt.

Specs:
Processor: IntelCore i7-2670QM @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 8GB
Graphic: Gforce GTX 560M
Wifi: Atheros Ar9300 Driver: ath9k
USB: 2GB

[darkcity]

at least one other person is having the same problem-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78580

suggest you report it here-
Slacko 5.3.3 bug reports and feedback

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(btw it may be easier to fix wifi in 5.3.1)

[mikkelart]

I'll report it,

thanks for your help anyway

[Karl Godt]

Dell computers seem to make problems with kernels later than 2.6.30/2.6.37/3.0

poweroff is fine but reboot seems to need "reboot=f" kernel parameter or "/sbin/reboot -f" option .

[mikkelart]

I have a Dell computer, but neither poweroff or reboot is okay.

[bigpup]

Try boot option

acpi=off
or
acpi=force

Try with live CD
At boot screen hit F2 key
enter option
Puppy acpi=off
or
puppy acpi=force

[mikkelart]

Try boot option

acpi=off
or
acpi=force

Try with live CD
At boot screen hit F2 key
enter option
Puppy acpi=off
or
puppy acpi=force

acpi=off did the trick. It runs flawless now, thanks!

[rjbrewer]

Try boot option

acpi=off
or
acpi=force

Try with live CD
At boot screen hit F2 key
enter option
Puppy acpi=off
or
puppy acpi=force

acpi=off did the trick. It runs flawless now, thanks!

You can also add that to the initrd line in syslinux config on
a flash drive or the kernel line in a grub hard drive install.

[mikkelart]

Try boot option

acpi=off
or
acpi=force

Try with live CD
At boot screen hit F2 key
enter option
Puppy acpi=off
or
puppy acpi=force

acpi=off did the trick. It runs flawless now, thanks!

You can also add that to the initrd line in syslinux config on
a flash drive or the kernel line in a grub hard drive install.

I already did I'm too lazy to type in those 8 digits every time